Hello, I'm stuck as how to the find volume of the solid generated by revolving the region created by y = x cos x; y = 0; x = 0; x =pi/2 about the y-axis? Your help is much appreciated!
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Hello, I'm stuck as how to the find volume of the solid generated by revolving the region created by y = x cos x; y = 0; x = 0; x =pi/2 about the y-axis? Your help is much appreciated!
First is to set up the integral. I suggest using the cylinder approach - for each value of x you have a cylinder of radius x, height y, and width dx. The volume of that cylinder is
and the integral is then:
Thank you so much!!
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